Ruin and recovering are both from within.
EPICTETUSSmall-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness.
More Epictetus Quotes
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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
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We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.
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It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.
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Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
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By accepting life’s limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
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No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
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It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Don’t demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.
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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.
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